ZyXEL Communications NWA3550 - Manual (Page 69)

Chapter 5 Tutorial
NWA3550 User’s Guide
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Your wireless network operates in an office building. It consists of four access points (all
ZyXEL Devices) and a variable number of wireless clients. You also know that the coffee shop
on the ground floor has a wireless network consisting of a single access point, which can be
detected and accessed from your floor of the building. There are no other static wireless
networks in your coverage area.
The following diagram shows the wireless networks in your area. Your access points are
marked A, B, C and D. You also have a network mail/file server, marked E, and a computer,
marked F, connected to the wired network. The coffee shop’s access point is marked 1.
Figure 31 Tutorial: Wireless Network Example
In the figure, the solid circle represents the range of your wireless network, and the dashed
circle represents the extent of the coffee shop’s wireless network. Note that the two networks
overlap. This means that one or more of your APs can detect the AP (1) in the other wireless
network.
When configuring the rogue AP feature on your ZyXEL Devices in this example, you will
need to use the information in the following table. You need the IP addresses of your APs to
access their Web configurators, and you need the MAC address of each AP to configure the
friendly AP list. You need the IP address of the mail server to set up e-mail alerts.
Table 4 Tutorial: Rogue AP Example Information
DEVICE IP ADDRESS MAC ADDRESS
Access Point A 192.168.1.1 00:AA:00:AA:00:AA
Access Point B 192.168.1.2 AA:00:AA:00:AA:00
Access Point C 192.168.1.3 A0:0A:A0:0A:A0:0A
A
B
C
D
1
E
F